Latest and Breaking Classical Music News and Top Stories - July 3
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We learn of the death of Maurice Meyer, a longterm player in the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic. He was 88. The son of an Iraqi ice-maker, Maurice was born in Burma, moved to Palestine in 1937 and came to London in 19...
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Christoph Stepp, principal conductor of the Munich Symphony Ochestra in the 1990s, has died, aged 86. A local personality, he founded the Munich Chamber Orchestra in 1950, served as a conductor at the Staatsoper for several years, also t...
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The roof organisation for George Lepauw’s Beethoven Festival, which failed to pay many musicians for last year’s performances, has pulled out any future involvement. John von Rhein reports in the Chicago Tribune: In a letter ...
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A passionate performance of Smetana's 'From My Life
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Brilliant young Czech ensemble talk about Smetana
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The 60-year-old composer is the first female master of the Queen's music, a position that has existed since 1625 Tom Service's guide to Judith Weir's music In 1995, as a newly appointed composer-in-residence at Birmingham's Symphony Orch...
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In June I sat on a panel organized by Opera Cabal, in their visit to the Kitchen to produce Georg Haas’ Atthis, with two other critics, John Rockwell and Zachary Woolfe. While the audience was sparse, they were generally attentive ...
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Philip Smith — principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, former teacher of Wynton Marsalis and hero to brass nerds everywhere — is retiring. Hear what makes him so idolized.
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The uncompromising composer talks about how his popular success means he is still an outsider, and how the 1989 Liverpool football tragedy made him feel personally guilty Michael Nyman, sipping dumpling soup in a Japanese cafe around the...
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Tim Sharp joins Brian Newhouse in Classical Minnesota Public Radio's fourth installment of Casual Conversations.
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New York Concert Artists and Associates, Inc. presents Na Young Kim Na Young Kim, piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; New York, NY June 30, 2014 Technical standards for pianists have changed in just the thirty-some years si...
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Film scores should be treated as "serious" classical music, with modern composers doing a similar job as Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Puccini, a director of the Royal Albert Hall argues
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The first question is an absurd Telegraph headline. The second should furrow some brows. With unique artists, you cannot compare like with like.
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A statement by artistic director, John Berry: In a climate of decreasing public investment in the arts, an explosion of new technologies and changing audience expectations, every sensible company has been thinking cr...
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Dallapicola: Il Prigioniero; Puccini: Suor Angelica, Liceu Symphony Orchestra, Edmon Colomer (conductor), Gran Theatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 27.6.2014 (JMI) Coproduction: Barcelona’s Liceu and Madrid’s Teatro Real Casts: Il Prig...
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A radical rendering of the Hammerklavier Sonata produced an explosive experience in the pianist's unshowy recital of Beethoven and Schubert At any time, let alone in a morning concert, Beethoven 's Hammerklavier Sonata Op 106 is a daunti...
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Colum McCann, whose novel Dancer depicted the inner life of the great Rudolf Nureyev, was taken to hospital in New Haven, Ct., after trying to help a woman who was being attacked. He’s a good man and a terrific writer. We wish him ...
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FREE Glyndebourne Don Giovann i on Sunday 6th July from 3pm . ENTER BY CLICKING THIS LINK HERE. With this glorious weather you can picnic in the comfort of your own garden, if you can rig things up. I don't know if it's internation...
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We reported a couple of days back that the Lyric Opera had a record year. Larry Johnson, one the scene and on the ball, points out that the company had to draw down $15 million from its endowment to stay in the black. Read here.
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A remarkable document has been retrieved and published by two Mahler scholars, Morten Solvik and Stephen E. Hefling. It consists of a letter to her literary executor by Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player who attached herself to Mahler...
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Attempts to challenge audience perceptions and explore Ibsen's text fall flat as production misses mark.
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Wannabe composers get a free shot at the Juice Vocal Ensemble
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The German conductor, who turns 87 on July 18, has been obliged to withdraw from his annual birthday concert in Paris with the Orchestre Nationale de France. Kurt is struggling with Parkinson’s Disease. We send him warm wishes for ...
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A unique gift has enable the orch to offer 15,000 free tickets on Cleveland Foundation Day. Read on: On July 20, up to 15,000 Northeast Ohioans will be able to enjoy The Cleveland Orchestra concert featuring the music of We...
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Monteverdi Vespro della beata Vergine - Vespers of 1610 ; Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon; Ambronay Editions Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jun 27 2014 Star rating: 5.0 Lithe and vibrant new recor...
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The current Allegri Quartet (Vanessa Lucas-Smith, Rafael Todes, Dorothea Vogel, Ofer Falk, ) in 1950's mood celebrating the quartet's 60 anniversary The Allegri Quartet is 60 this year and to celebrate the quartet is at the Wigmore Hal l...
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Photo Hugh Gilbert To The Pheasantry in the Kings Road, Chelsea on Tuesday night (1 July 2014) for Cocktails with the Diva , the new show from cabaret singer and opera star Melinda Hughes and Kiss and Tell Cabaret . Hughes, accompa...
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Ahead of our streaming of Glyndebourne's Don Giovanni, baritone Gerald Finley explains what it takes to play Mozart's rakish seducer
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L'Arpeggiata, the fine European early-music ensemble led by Christina Pluhar, has applied modern treatment to 16 of Purcell's vocal and instrumental excerpts, turning them into jazz, folk or blues-tinged versions of the originals. The su...
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Fischer: Die Rote Färse, Members of Budapest Festival Orchestra and Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Iván Fischer (conductor), Konzerthaus Berlin, Werner-Otto-Saal, Berlin, 28.6.2014 (SH) Cast: Gyula Krúdy: József Gyabronka Móric: Jo...
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Barney/Bepler River of Fundament (film, UK Premiere) Coliseum, London, 29.6.2014 (CC) The prospect of a six-hour film which initially at least seems to specialise in coprophilia (that’s an abnormal fascination with faeces, to yo...
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By Paul Hyde DRESDEN -- Jan Vogler has seen ticket revenues double in six years as head of the Dresden Music Festival. "I want to tell a message that is deep but also fun," he says of his program palette. "My goal is to understand my time."
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American music for flute and piano, heard by Ron Bierman. 'Amy Porter plays with feeling and clean, seemingly effortless articulation ...'
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I was a bit wary of Mzoart's La finta giardiniera because the recordings I've heard do little for it. At Glyndebourne, however - a Mozart house - they know how to bring out the best. Excellent staging and performances serve Glyndebourne'...
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The Seventh New York International Piano Competition (NYIPC), under the auspices of The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY June 22, 2014 Music competitions today seem to sprout up pra...
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By Robert Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live music, each week Violinist.com brings you links to reviews of notable violin performances from around the world. Photo courtesy the artist, © Anja Frers Lisa Batiashvili perfo...
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This is my review of lovely Longborough's terrific Tosca for the Independent. Four stars. Among the UK’s country house opera destinations, Longborough stands out as possibly the most audacious, unlikely and lovable. Near Moreton-i...
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Wolf Trap Opera of Vienna, Virginia has announced that at a July 25 performance of Carmen, tech journalist David Pogue will be onstage wearing Google Glass.
